Edgar Rice Burroughs Books Joe & I Have Read

I'm not sure how many books Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote--around 80*, I think--but Joe and I are on a quest to read all of them. I've been reading ERB out loud to Joe since 2009. Here's what we've done so far.

(BTW, these books are listed in the order in which we read them. The dates correspond to the first book publication of each work.)

The Barsoom Series

1.  A Princess of Mars (1917)

2.  The Gods of Mars (1918)

3.  The Warlord of Mars (1919)

4.  Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1920)

5.  The Chessmen of Mars (1922)

6.  The Master Mind of Mars (1928)

7.  A Fighting Man of Mars (1931)

8.  Swords of Mars (1936)

9.  Synthetic Men of Mars (1940)

10.  Llana of Gathol (1948)
11. John Carter of Mars (1964)

The Tarzan Series

12.  Tarzan of the Apes (1914)

13.  The Return of Tarzan (1915)

14.  The Beasts of Tarzan (1916)

15.  The Son of Tarzan (1917)

16.  Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1918)

17.  Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1919)

18.  Tarzan the Untamed (1920)

19.  Tarzan the Terrible (1921)

20.  Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1923)

21.  Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924)

22.  Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1928)

23.  Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1929)

24.  Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1930) *

25.  Tarzan the Invincible (1931)

26.  Tarzan Triumphant (1932)

27.  Tarzan and the City of Gold (1933)
28. Tarzan and the Lion Man (1934)
29. Tarzan and the Leopard Men (1935)
30. Tarzan's Quest (1936)
31. Tarzan and the Forbidden City (1938)
32. Tarzan the Magnificent (1939)
33. Tarzan and the Foreign Legion (1947)
34. Tarzan and the Madman (1964)
35. Tarzan and the Castaways (1965)

Which looks like this:

And then we read . . . 

36. The Tarzan Twins(1927) ➖
37. Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins With Jad-Bal-Ja, the Golden Lion (1936) ➖
38. Tarzan: The Lost Adventure (1995)

The Pellucidar Series

39. At the Earth's Core (1922)
40. Pellucidar (1923)
41. Tanar of Pellucidar (1930)
* Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1930)
42. Back to the Stone Age (1937)
43. Land of Terror (1944)
44. Savage Pellucidar (1963)

The Venus Series

45. Pirates of Venus (1934)
46. Lost on Venus (1935)
47. Carson of Venus (1939)
48. Escape on Venus (1946)
49. The Wizard of Venus (1964)

The Moon Trilogy

50. The Moon Maid (1926)
51. The Moon Men (1926)
52. The Red Hawk (1926)

The Caspak Trilogy

53. The Land That Time Forgot (1924)
54. The People That time Forgot (1924)
55. Out Of Time's Abyss  (1924)



                              The Minor Series:                              

The Mucker Trilogy

56. The Mucker (1921)➖
57. The Return of the Mucker (1921) ➖
58. The Oakdale Affair (1937)➖


The Cave Girl Duology

59. The Cave Girl (1925)➖
60. The Cave Man (1925)➖


The Barney Custer Duology

61. The Mad King (1926)
62. The Eternal Savage / The Eternal Lover (1925)


The Apache Duology

63. The War Chief (1927)
64. Apache Devil (1933)

And that's it for Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs! 

And now for the 20 Stand Alone Books:

65. Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M (1998)

66.  The Outlaw of Torn (1927)

67.  The Monster Men (1929)

68. The Bandit of Hell’s Bend (1925)

69. Beyond the Farthest Star (1941)

70. The Girl From Hollywood (1923)

Which looks like this:

Full Disclosure: as you can no doubt tell, some of these books are actually cut and paste photoshop jobs. That's because we read some in eBook versions. 

Which leaves us with...

71. Tarzan Clans of America Handbook (1939)

72. The Rider (1937)

73. The Lad and the Lion (1938)

74. I Am a Barbarian (1967)

75. Beyond Thirty / The Lost Continent (1955)

76. The Girl from Farris's (1959)

77. The Jungle Girl / The Land of Hidden Men (1932)

78. Beware! / The Scientists Revolt (1922)

79. The Efficiency Expert (1966)

80. The Man-Eater (1955)

81. The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County (1940)

82. Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder (2001)

83. You Lucky Girl! (1999)

84. Marcia of the Doorstep (1999) ➖

The End!

* As it turns out, the best I can figure is that there are 84 books total. It gets a little hazy here and there, as some books were published separately, then published in various different ways: for instance, The Moon Trilogy. The Moon Maid was first published in 1922, The Moon Men in 1925, and The Red Hawk in 1925. But it has been published as three separate novels, as two novels (with 2 and 3 combined), and as a single volume. So is it one novel, two, or three? I counted it as three. There are other things that are really too short to be considered as novels...like Beware! But you can only find it in a stand-alone publication. Etcetera. Anyway, I thought about these things far longer than a healthy human being would think about them, and finally decided that 84 was the number I would use.

** There are now only 9 ERB books that I don't own in print copies (➖ ***)...although for two of them--Tarzan Clans of America Handbook and Beware!--I printed my own facsimile versions, since the actual print versions cost more than I was willing to spend for them. 

*** That is until I found a very cheap copy of You Lucky Girl! and purchased it. So only 8 ERB books that I don't own now.

ADDENDUM: After trying to go it alone for years, I finally went to a Facebook group--For the Love of All Things EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS--and within a very short amount of time I got lots of responses to my query re: the number of Edgar Rice Burroughs books Out There. Several of the comments helped me to realize that there were things which some people might count as books which I hadn't-- for instance, "Pirate Blood" (which was published in the same volume with The Wizard of Venus (1970) & "The Resurrection of Jimber Jaw" (which is a short story, but was published in two versions, one in Tales of Three Planets and the other--Burroughs' original version, "Elmer"-- in Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder.  So that would give two more titles to the list. (86)

Also, I counted "Beware!" / "The Scientists Revolt" as a book...which I thought was quite generous, since it's actually two slightly different versions of a short story, but if both stories were counted separately, that would add another title to the list.  (87)

I'm also wondering if there was a bit of double-counting going on. For instance, I didn't count Tales of Three Planets because its constituent parts--"The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw," "Beyond the Farthest Star," "Tangor Returns," and "The Wizard of Venus"--were all present in other books, but I can see why someone might count it as a book, too. And what about Tarzan at the Earth's Core? It's on the list for both the Tarzan Series and the Pellucidar Series. I only counted it once, of course, but it's possible that it was inadvertently counted twice.  (89)

I still think my number of 84 is the most accurate, but at least I'm beginning to see how higher book counts made sense to some folks... like the editor who wrote this in the introduction to The Lad and the Lion:

So lots of good information from the fine folks at For the Love of All Things EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS. But here's the best bit of all: one of the members told me about a book entitled Edgar Rice Burroughs Tells All, which is a compilation of his non-fiction work. I was stunned, since I've spent a fair amount of time hunting down Burroughs leads and never caught a whiff of this one. I went online immediately, found a copy at Thrift Books, ordered it, and it is winging my way even as we speak.  (It's also available on Amazon if you can bring yourself to buy from those bastards.) Very Exciting! 

P.S. Just got another message from a FtLoATERB member who pointed out that  Beyond Thirty was also published as The Lost Continent, which might have caused confusion with the number of books ERB published. And that reminded me that there were a couple of other books published under different titles: The Eternal Lover / The Eternal Savage and Jungle Girl / The Land of Hidden Men. So there you have another possible 3 books...which would bring the count up to 92. Good work, boys!

Other official works[edit]
The Eternal Lover and The Mad King (1914–15, 1925, 1926)[edit]
Originally written as a series of four novellas, they were first published as novels in 1925 and 1926.

Main article: The Eternal Lover
The Eternal Lover recounts a sister and brother visiting the Greystoke estate in Africa before the first World War. While there, the sister falls unconscious, and remembers her adventures from a past life thousands of years ago. Tarzan makes occasional appearances as their present day host.

Main article: The Mad King
The first half of The Mad King is set before the African visit, and focuses on the brother, finding out that they are related to the royalty of a small kingdom between Austria and Serbia. The second half is set after the African visit as the brother returns to the European kingdom on the eve of World War I. Tarzan does not appear in these two stories, although the sister from Eternal Lover does.

The Adventures of Tarzan (1921, 2006)[edit]
Main article: The Adventures of Tarzan
A licensed novelization serialized in 15 parts by newspapers in 1921. This work by Maude Robinson Toombs is based on the scripts for the 15-part film-serial of the same name, and was first released as a collected edition in 2006.

Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins (1927/1936)[edit]
Main article: Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins
Originally written as a pair of novellas specifically for younger readers, the two stories; "The Tarzan Twins" and "Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins, with Jad-bal-ja, the Golden Lion" were published together in 1963. While the fact that they were written for children usually excludes them from lists of the main Tarzan novels, the family in the stories does make an appearance in Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1929).

Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966)[edit]
Main article: Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (novel)
Authorized by the Burroughs estate as the 25th official novel, this work by Fritz Leiber is based on the screenplay for the film of the same name. The book includes footnotes connecting the story to events from Burroughs' twenty-four prior novels.

Endless Quest Books[edit]
In the 1980s, TSR, Inc. published two Tarzan books as part of their Endless Quest gamebook series.

EQ #26 Tarzan and the Well of Slaves (1985) by Douglas Niles ISBN 0-394-73968-X
EQ #31 Tarzan and the Tower of Diamonds (1986) by Richard Reinsmith ISBN 0-394-74188-9
Tarzan: the Lost Adventure (1995)[edit]
Main article: Tarzan: the Lost Adventure
Eighty typed pages for an unfinished Tarzan novel were found in Burroughs' safe after his death. In the mid-1990s the Burroughs estate and Dark Horse Comics chose Joe R. Lansdale to complete the novel which was released as a co-authored work in 1995.

Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996)[edit]
Main article: Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (novel)
The pilot episode of the 1996–1997 television series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures was adapted into an authorized 1996 novel by R. A. Salvatore. The book is nominally set during the middle of The Return of Tarzan as it chronicles a time after Tarzan returned to Africa from Paris, but before he married Jane.

The Dark Heart of Time (1999)[edit]
Main article: The Dark Heart of Time
Following The Lost Adventure the Burroughs estate authorized Philip Jose Farmer to write an official Tarzan novel, released in 1999 as The Dark Heart of Time.

Best known for his Riverworld series, Philip Jose Farmer has also written a number of Tarzan based pastiche works. He also authored Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke (1972/2006), and two authorized Opar novels set thousands of years in the past: Hadon of Ancient Opar (1974) and Flight to Opar (1976).

Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy (2011)[edit]
Main article: Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy
Author Andy Briggs has rebooted the series[1] as young-adult fiction, in the vein of Young Bond, with the first novel—Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy—published in June 2011.[2][3] The reboot is set in modern Africa and features Tarzan at around 18 and Jane as the teenage daughter of doctor turned illegal logger.[4][5]

Tarzan: The Jungle Warrior (2012)[edit]
Andy Briggs's second book in the young adult reboot.

"Tarzan: The Savage Lands" (2013)[edit]
Main article: Tarzan: The Savage Lands
Andy Briggs also released the third book on February 7, 2013.

"Tarzan: Return to Pal-ul-don" (2015)[edit]
Main article: Tarzan: Return to Pal-ul-don
Author Will Murray's authorized sequel to Tarzan the Terrible [6]